Instead of allowing our kids to beat themselves up when things don’t go their way, we might all pause to question a culture that has taught them that being anything less than overwhelmed is lazy, that how they perform for others is more important than what actually inspires them and that where they go to college matters more than the kind of person they are. | |
The point is not to give our kids a pass on working hard and doing their best. But fantasizing that they can control everything is not really resilience. We are harming our children by implying that they can bend life to their will, and as students walk across commencement stages this year, we would be wise to remind them that life has a way of sucker-punching us when we least expect it. It’s often the people who learn to say “stuff happens” who get up the fastest. | |
— Rachel Simmons | |
From her opinion / editorial: “Tell kids the truth: hard work doesn’t always pay off“ | |
Appearing in Time Magazine, dtd: 1 July 2019 | |
Online at: https://time.com/5593706/hard-work-achievement-mindset/ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Looking Into Golf |
Goin’ Yard | |
2017 | Improvise |
2016 | Got Leisure? |
2015 | It’s Been Hurtin’ For Quite A While Now |
2014 | Curious Talent |
2013 | Eureka |
2012 | Slow Me |
2011 | He Said What?!? |
2010 | Gritty |
3 and 3 | |
Just A Hunch | |
Wall Street – Movie Review | |
2nd Pair – Shoe Review (Aborted and Final) | |
Posts Tagged ‘Parenting’
Stuff Happens
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Education, Hard Work, Parenting, Philosophy, Quotes, Rachel Simmons, Raising Children, Resilience, Stuff Happens, Tell kids the truth: hard work doesn't always pay off, Telling The Truth, Time Magazine on September 26, 2019| 2 Comments »
Hearts And Memories
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Poetry, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Carl Sagan, Children, Family, I Didn't Have My Glasses On, Love, Memories, My Children, Other Blogs, Parenting, Philosophy, Poetry, Quotes, The Backyard Poet on October 15, 2017| 2 Comments »
To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever. | |
― Carl Sagan | |
[This quote was found at one of the blogs I follow: http://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/ | |
The specific post is located at: http://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/2017/03/02/valhalla/ | |
Well worth a visit… KMAB] | |
My Children |
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It is not how much I have gathered | |
Through my honest work or even greed | |
In the end possessions won’t matter | |
But what flowers from each planted seed | |
I wanted them to have all my heart | |
And leave no part of my love unused | |
Give them an easier place to start | |
Let them find their own dreams to pursue | |
I wonder will they remember well | |
The lessons that I have tried to teach | |
Those things that I tried to gently tell | |
To show that hope is within their reach | |
To show them not to stand on the stage | |
Instead intermingle with the crowd | |
Always have the want to turn the page | |
Be the one of whom they could be proud | |
They’re the footprints that I leave behind | |
They will be my only legacy | |
They will be the story brought to mind | |
When my grandchildren remember me | |
[This poem was found at one of the blogs I follow: https://thebackyardpoet.com/ | |
The specific location for the post is: https://thebackyardpoet.com/2017/10/06/my-children/ | |
Another site well worth visiting (if you have the time)… — KMAB | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Tremendous Energy |
Beyond Trying | |
2015 | Tell Me… |
2014 | Live Forever (To Remember Me) |
Orange October (VI) – Giants Win Game 4 | |
2013 | More Than Just Words |
2012 | Egotist, n. |
2011 | Good And Bad |
What Do You Emphasize?
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Parenting, Philosophy, Quotes, Warren Buffett on March 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »
In teaching your kids, I think the lesson they’re learning at a very, very early age is what their parents put the emphasis on. If all the emphasis is on what the world’s going to think about you, forgetting about how you really behave, you’ll wind up with an Outer Scorecard. Now my dad: He was a hundred percent Inner Scorecard guy.
He was really a maverick. But he wasn’t a maverick for the sake of being a maverick. He just didn’t care what other people thought. My dad taught me how life should be lived. I’ve never seen anybody quite like him.
— Warren Buffett